Jessica Milia is a technologist in Biosciences and Computational Infrastructures, Smart Project and Quantum Computing sector of CRS4, NGS Core program.She graduated in Biology in 2018 at the University of Cagliari with a thesis focused on the identification and characterization of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase enxyme inhibitors.She got her master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2020 at the University of Cagliari. Her thesis was focused on the evaluation of immune response inhibition mediated by Zika Virus.From December 2020 to October 2021 she worked as Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Virology of Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (University of Cagliari)focusing on the assessment of innate immune system inhibition by SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins and the identification of potential viral inhibitors.Since December 2021, he has been working at the CRS4 NGS sequencing platform, where he is responsible for the following activities:- qualitative and quantitative assessment of DNA and RNA samples;- library preparation from nucleic acids for WGS, WES, RNA-Seq, targeted sequencing, and 16S metagenomics analyses using Illumina technology, for WGS analysis using Oxford Nanopore technology;- execution and monitoring of sequencing runs using Illumina and Oxford Nanopore instruments, including the preparation of samplesheets and the setup of on-board analysis pipelines (Illumina DRAGEN and Oxford Nanopore EPI2ME);- participation in the quality control (qualitative and quantitative) of raw data and final results obtained from bioinformatic analysis.
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